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Rather than the presenter, I’m wondering more about the content. With the obsession with talking heads these days I fear they will downgrade the results and graphics parts and focus too much on interviews, in the desperation that they get a soundbite that will go viral.

This is my issue. What people actually want from election night is results and analysis, but there is an ever-increasing focus on these panels with politicians regurgiating the same three pre-rehearsed soundbites throughout the programme - last year's afternoon coverage of the local elections was almost entirely this for about four hours (granted it was branded as a Politics Live special, so should have expected it). The less said about the side gimmicks, the better.

I hope for, but do not expect, a more streamlined programme. Granted you can't have John Curtice on all night and the touchscreen does have limitations, but the BBC have half the country's top political science professors in NBH for the Exit Poll, why not use them a bit more? Why not commission (alongside ITV and Sky) a broader opinion poll that asks questions about key issues, leaders, etc.? This would actually help add context to the analysis, rather than letting politicians imbue the results with the meaning they want them to have.